New McCartney song. Wasn't expecting that today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n1I...

DEBUNKED: Carbon Brief has fact-checked some of the most common misconceptions about North Sea oil and gas, including the oft-repeated notion that opening the basin to new drilling would “lower people's bills”. @carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org

Quite enjoying taking a look back at the US National Security Strategy (November 2025). www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Compromise: keep Churchill on the notes but it's the dog version from the advert

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Fancy watching some brilliant women reading #shortstories by some other brilliant women? We've got over 200 of them here! liarsleague.com/category/int... #InternationalWomensDay2026 #liarsleague

A quick search returns only 9 players named Gomes to have ever played in the Premier League. 4 for Wolves, City with the next highest of 2. So no it has never happened before. All done in less time than you wasted on AI Bravo 👏

Rose are red, Violets are blue…

I think this the version that pretty much every tech baron in this country read in the bathroom as a teen.

Well, this is a bit old school, n’est ce pas?

Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong

Probably made that sound too worthy in that description. I simply think it's useful to be reminded if there's a film-ish thing on the Beeb in the evening, watch it, don't watch it, who cares. But follow @isthereafilmon.bsky.social and get reminded

Saw this and had a flashback to a time when Rosie Boycott tried pivoting the Daily Express to being a liberal rival to the Daily Mail. What a different era that was

Very strongly recommend @benansell.bsky.social’s piece on Minneapolis. One takeaway: ICE should have read Putnam’s classic ‘Bowling Alone’ before choosing Minnesota… open.substack.com/pub/benansel...

👏👏👏 love a good philosophy gag

Expecting @netflix.com to option this shortly

It's dawned on me that one of the reason that kids made such *excellent* forts in the 1970s and 1980s is that they were inadvertently participating in a nuclear civil defence programme. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect...

BBC having a totally normal one again, granting respectability and credence to their sworn enemies.

Prioritising balance over objectivity is the most cowardly exercise that a news outlet or journalist can engage in. 'The evidence shows X, but the regime says Y - so it's impossible to know the truth.' Lies should not be afforded the same respect and credibility as the evidence that exposes them.

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

Looking at you @bbcnews this evening…

Several people have said this by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk is good. They're right. www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo...

WINNING STORIES for Valentine show #ExAndNext Tue 10 Feb at The Phoenix revealed! Seduction A-Zs, Antarctic awks, divorce dates, "accidental" murder etc. Congrats to authors @kategl.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social Grace McKenzie Jeff Wood+ debutante Lor Vanden liarsleague.com/2026/01/08/n...

We’re aiming to publish a @nestauk.bsky.social analysis of the Warm Homes Plan tomorrow. In fact, I’m off to work on it now. And we have an online event to react to it on Thursday at 12 noon - join us! www.nesta.org.uk/event/deciph...

Permanent seats on *my* board of peace are available for only £1M each. We'll meet on the last Thursday of every quarter in my garage. There'll be a password, a secret handshake, and a free decoder ring for every member. Top of the 1st agenda: Would Green Land be a good name for a garden centre?

*much of America will be punished with a 10% tax hike on European goods for Europe not giving us Greenland

Quick reminder that when Trump puts tariffs on other countries it is the US consumer that pays that tariff

Weekend timeline cleanse! A #Greek rhyton in the shape of a #dog's head. 🐕🐶 Vessels such as this were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, their contents had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down Dating ca. 475 BC. 📷 Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 🏺

Can’t help but feel that Tony Blair has become ever more his Martin Rowson caricature over the years…

If you’re a writer looking for inspiration for a short story, starting with one of these wouldn’t be a bad place to start…

Flash fiction this morning from @pastpostcard.bsky.social 👇

I think that one of my major projects for 2026 is to escape from falling into the trap of seeing everything as doom and overall terminal decline. Specific things might be proper shit, but declaring everything as the end times just plays into the hands of very right wing wrong 'uns

You wait years for a play about Mary Todd Lincoln to hit the London stage etc etc…

Alastair Sim as Scrooge in Scrooge (1951). The meme daddy. So you *can* do it. Film & TV producers have made enough adaptions of Scrooge at the window to fill a whole advent calendar. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. You there boy! What day is this? To-day! Why, CHRISTMAS DAY!

Christmas Eve in Ukraine

Peter Sellers once told Kermit the Frog, "There is no 'me'... there used to be a me but I had it surgically removed." Had he forgotten that a dozen or so years earlier he had been 'Imperial Me' in Rod Serling's Carol For Another Christmas? We're covering it this week! pod.link/1569929507

Ready at my first Smithfield’s Christmas Eve meat auction…

Elegant couple at goldsmith’s shop for a ring, in 1449. But what about those 2 men in the mirror? And what is luring us? Wonderful wares, wonderful painting, Petrus Christus. It’s his day today.

I've stuck randomly generated conspiracies onto Matt from the Telegraph's cartoons to create "Tinfoil Matt" (Not AI, me writing templates, the good old fashioned way to do these things with a strong degree of authorship.) Follow @tinfoil-matt.bsky.social NOW.

A Venn Diagram courtesy of my pre-Christmas Farm Direct order. Enjoy…

Just love this. Endlessly fascinating in so many ways…

In London this Tuesday evening? Want to kick of the festivities with a bang? Come to Liars' League! I'll be your host for "Blessed and Cursed" - five stories read by actors, with mince pies and a book quiz (infamous). Grab one of the last remaining tickets! It'll be a ho-ho-hoot... #LiveLit

Breathtaking, but now expected.

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

👻It's a fine tradition to read ghost stories in winter, but why not rest your eyes instead & listen to #HauntedAndHunted, our latest podcast feat. @carriecohen01.bsky.social @timlarkfield.bsky.social @timaldrich.bsky.social @davemcgrath.bsky.social You're welcome🎅 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

Starmer won’t like the analogy (he’s a Gooner, after all) but he shares a lot in common with Arne Slot: won big last year, spent lots of money, seriously underperforming in the league table/polls

The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)